My issue is that what is quite a personal decision to be made by me and the cleaners about what risks we’re prepared to take and why has been taken over by a culture war which just doesn’t fit in my case.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @Tiggles15 and
It's not a personal decision Any increase in the infection rate makes the whole population more vulnerable This is the basic logic of public health during a pandemic Jesus Christ
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Lenoxus and
You are completely ignorant of the situation, as you keep proving. I have no interest in being drawn into the nasty US culture wars, we have enough problems of our own. Mind your own business, leave women alone. We don’t need you to be our judge or our knight in shining armour.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @Tiggles15 and
It is my business, and we can easily "leave women out of it" by just saying that no one should be hiring anyone to travel to their home for any nonessential service regardless of what gender coding you put on the job
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
I don't want to get sick and die and I don't anyone I care about to get sick and die and I don't want the world to collapse because the death rate rises too high for the medical system to manage Everything else is secondary to that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
Even if I accepted the insane, bizarrely sexist framing that cleaners are employed by women and contractors are employed by men - as though they're not all working for everyone who lives in the house - that wouldn't change anything You shouldn't have ANYONE coming to your house
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
If you can show me anyone anywhere who's actually said that it's okay for men to hire men to come into the house to do nonessential manly tasks I'll yell at them for it too But it seems to be something you've entirely made up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Lenoxus and
You’re being disingenuous. You know full well that even in 2020 the majority of domestic & care labour still falls on women. Nobody has complained about male-dominated professions: Amazon/Dominos drivers, mechanics, plumbers, telecoms, refuse desposal. What a coincidence.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @Tiggles15 and
There are gendered reasons why "intimate labor" that requires going into someone's home and breathing in their germs is much more likely to be performed by women, yes That's a conversation worth talking about in other contexts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
It is not a reason to concern troll the basic physical reason that being a cleaner is more dangerous during COVID-19 than other jobs, or to argue that we should ignore this fact in the name of gender parity That's a fucking horrifying thing to say
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Cleaning staff, who are primarily women, were ALREADY A PROFESSION AT THE HIGHEST RISK OF CONTRACTING COVID-19 Thanks to the cleaners still working in "essential" workplaces (caring for the disabled, working in institutional settings) This is so fucked
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
I mean shit you know one of the reasons domestic labor falls so much harder on women Is that men who *don't* have a wife or girlfriend, and who can afford it, are much more likely to not even bother trying to do it themselves and hire a poor woman to do it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Tiggles15 and
A ton of domestic staff are hired by single men of means or by groups of men living together Single dads use nannies and au pairs WAY more than married het couples or single moms. Is that also a triumph of feminism? Are you defending those guys too?
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